*** "WHILE ISRAEL is stepping up the
killings and the genocide, sparing no living creature in the occupied
Palestinian land, whether human or plant, we hear that the US sponsor
of the peace process is refusing that Zionism be equated with racism
at the forthcoming conference on racism in Durban."

(Syrian official denouncing US pressure to block
Arab states from equating Zionism with racism at the upcoming UN
conference on discrimination)

*** "THERE IS SOMETHING wrong with this,
and these people have reduced him to a fast-food chicken outlet."

(Spokesman of the ruling African National Congress
on the use of former president Nelson Mandela's image by South African
fast food outlet)

*** "LET US stop thrusting the captive
views of captive experts on captive audience. Let the viewers decide
for themselves the truth or otherwise of the discourse."

(Letter to the Editor published in a local daily
criticising marathon discussions not permitting diversified views and
people participation by the state-owned Pakistan Television during the
Agra Summit)

*** "UNLIKE FRITZ, I cannot do (process)
five million moves per second. I would be happy with one move per
second."

(Russian world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik
exuding confidence to win against the super-computer ahead of
man-versus-machine clash in Bahrain in October)

*** "I HAVE BEEN disappointed in almost
everything he has done."

(Former US president Jimmy Carter evaluating the
first six-month performance of his most recent successor, George W.
Bush)

*** "I HAD GOOD REASON to believe that
America used a BZ variant against Iraq during the Gulf War."

(The mastermind behind South Africa's apartheid-era
chemical warfare, Wouter Basson, disclosing that the US had used
hallucinogenic against Iraq during the Gulf War)